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Posted on June 14, 2005 at 3:40:51 PM
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Gentoo founder gets hired by Microsoft.
Lenovo says no to seperate PC line for cheaper market.
New exoplanet discovered.
Getting Fat = Getting Older.
Games, in the Real World too.
Gentoo founder gets hired by Microsoft.
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Gentoo founder and former Gentoo Chief Architect Daniel Robbins began a new position at Microsoft on 23 May 2005. According to drobbins: "I'm helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." While in the midst of hastily packing to move to Redmond, drobbins nonetheless managed to find the time to finalize the transfer of Gentoo's intellectual property (essentially copyrights on ebuilds and other software as well as soon-to-be trademarked Gentoo logos) to the not-for-profit Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
Lenovo says no to seperate PC line for cheaper market.
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"We are thinking of introducing another brand under Lenovo," Deepak Advani, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Lenovo, told the Xinhuanet news service during a press briefing in New Delhi. "Lenovo has developed some good products in China which might meet the need of (the) Indian market. For example, it has worked out products for those not very skilled in computer(s) or for schools where many students have to share one computer."
New exoplanet discovered.
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But the new “super-Earth” is by far the smallest planet seen circling a commonplace star. The team discovered it while observing a star called Gliese 876 from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Gliese 876 is a red dwarf, one-third of the mass of the Sun, and lies just 15 light years away in the constellation Aquarius.
Getting Fat = Getting Older.
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And there is a synergistic effect. “Fat smokers are at the highest risk of all. An obese smoker is on average at least 10 years older than a lean non-smoker,” says Spector. “It’s not just about heart disease or lung cancer, the whole chromosomal clock is going faster. That’s the public health message.”
Games, in the Real World too.
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"The limitations of physical space makes playing the game exciting," says Michele Chang, a technology ethnographer with Intel in Portland, Oregon. There is also a social element, says Chang. Last year, as a social experiment to see how people behave with real-world games, she created Digital Street Game, which ran for six months in New York. The aim was to acquire territory by performing stunts dictated by the game at public locations around the city, such as playing hopscotch at a crossroads while holding a hot-dog. "People are more reserved than you would imagine," says Chang. Some players took to performing their stunt on rooftops to avoid being seen, she says, while others relished being ostentatious - like players of Pac-Manhattan, in which New Yorkers dress up as the video game icon Pac-Man and flee other gamers dressed up as ghosts.